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Google chromecast review 202212/19/2023 ![]() The most irksome thing here, beyond the recommendations (I might like superhero movies, but nobody needs to watch 2015's Fantastic Four) was that clicking Dislike didn't immediately discard the recommendation and replace it. The more I ran into main "slideshow" image recommendations and "Top picks for me" that did nothing for me? The more the Chromecast felt like work. In that "Top picks for you" section, you can long-press on show or movie's icon to bring up a menu, where you can click Watched it, Watchlist It, Like or Dislike. Then, I tried to help the Chromecast TV find me better shows, by giving feedback through its recommendations row. As in you have to open that app to get there. Sure, the TV app holds promoted content and recommendations, and I love that being there - as an opt-in feature. It's not as bad as what you see on the Fire TV, but it's a far cry from the tidy and spartan Apple TV 4K interface. On Apple, you get a clean set of rows of app icons. ![]() As someone who walked out of this movie (in theaters) after 40 minutes? This was too much. The first hiccup was almost the worst: Brendan Fraser's The Whale was nearly tattooed to the home screen for the better part of a week in March. ![]() And while home screens aren't the be-all, end-all, they're the primary way we start to watch things. But my big problem with the Chromecast with Google TV from before had remained: I still find its interface to be a bit congested. That made me hope for a less-cluttered experience. The good news we learned about in February was simple: the Movies and Shows menus from the top of the screen were going away. ![]()
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